Brian McKay
@boomstyx.bsky.social
I like dogs. Proud Greener. I post soccer stats and occasionally write for Sounder at Heart and Backheeled.
“Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton’s dick” was not something I expected to be in the Epstein files.
November 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Donald Trump sucked Bill Clinton’s dick” was not something I expected to be in the Epstein files.
Sounders were the better team by a large margin. But that a was an awful shootout. I don’t hate best of 3 I actually like it, but please do first to 5. I hate ending them all on PK’s.
October 28, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Sounders were the better team by a large margin. But that a was an awful shootout. I don’t hate best of 3 I actually like it, but please do first to 5. I hate ending them all on PK’s.
Brian Schmetzer throwing out the weirdest line up of the year.
September 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Brian Schmetzer throwing out the weirdest line up of the year.
Incredible scenes in the Seattle locker room.
August 31, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Incredible scenes in the Seattle locker room.
No cheating. Post the last picture of your pet.
August 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
No cheating. Post the last picture of your pet.
Sounders are the top trending topic on Bluesky.
August 1, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Sounders are the top trending topic on Bluesky.
I made an LLM that answers questions about silly MLS roster rules. @talevy.soccer asked it to explain the discover rights situation as a pirate. The results were both funny and informative.
July 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I made an LLM that answers questions about silly MLS roster rules. @talevy.soccer asked it to explain the discover rights situation as a pirate. The results were both funny and informative.
Also Georgi should just be playing. His g+ is deceptively low bc of an instance where he had an offside touch on the goal line that invalidated an otherwise good goal. Outside that, he has some mind boggling stats. He's getting passes from the danger zone off more than basically anyone.
July 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Also Georgi should just be playing. His g+ is deceptively low bc of an instance where he had an offside touch on the goal line that invalidated an otherwise good goal. Outside that, he has some mind boggling stats. He's getting passes from the danger zone off more than basically anyone.
Thought this was interesting from the new g+ sub-categories from @americansocceranalysis.com Despite having a high take-on success rate and a high number of successful take-ons, the value of those take-ons is very low for Pedro De La Vega. Like related to his very low receiving...
July 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Thought this was interesting from the new g+ sub-categories from @americansocceranalysis.com Despite having a high take-on success rate and a high number of successful take-ons, the value of those take-ons is very low for Pedro De La Vega. Like related to his very low receiving...
Lol, I just like food but think eating fish eggs and gold dipped ice cream is weird.
June 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Lol, I just like food but think eating fish eggs and gold dipped ice cream is weird.
The man, the myth, the legend. This dude is either the most or second most expensive CB signing in MLS history lol.
June 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
The man, the myth, the legend. This dude is either the most or second most expensive CB signing in MLS history lol.
The Tomás Aviles experience:
June 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The Tomás Aviles experience:
Actual photo of Jordan Morris.
June 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Actual photo of Jordan Morris.
The Club World Cup and the actual World Cup are going to be historical level disasters, for slightly different reasons too!
June 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
The Club World Cup and the actual World Cup are going to be historical level disasters, for slightly different reasons too!
I made posts early in the year about how the Sounders were struggling to make really good chances. I wanted to follow up on this, and do a mid-season stat dump before CWC starts. The Sounder's, to my surprise, have really turned it around. Since 4/1 they are now well above average...
June 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I made posts early in the year about how the Sounders were struggling to make really good chances. I wanted to follow up on this, and do a mid-season stat dump before CWC starts. The Sounder's, to my surprise, have really turned it around. Since 4/1 they are now well above average...
It’s hard to overstate just how badly FIFA read the market on CWC tickets. Despite massive price cuts, the get in price for Miami vs Al Ahly is still ~$20 more than Miami vs Atlanta, the team that KO’ed them last year, a few weeks from now. Miami sports fans can see Messi any week, why would they…
June 7, 2025 at 6:14 PM
It’s hard to overstate just how badly FIFA read the market on CWC tickets. Despite massive price cuts, the get in price for Miami vs Al Ahly is still ~$20 more than Miami vs Atlanta, the team that KO’ed them last year, a few weeks from now. Miami sports fans can see Messi any week, why would they…
That seems really weird. He gets disposed a lot, but his other metrics are really good. Could it be small sample + one or two really big negative g+ events?
June 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
That seems really weird. He gets disposed a lot, but his other metrics are really good. Could it be small sample + one or two really big negative g+ events?
Both UCL finalists have Club World Cup games in Seattle in 6 weeks, and from the sales so far, it will be in an empty stadium. The PSG vs Sounders game looks to be selling ok, but Inter Milan looks like they have sold almost nothing (large sections on both appear to be reserved to for sponsors)
May 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Both UCL finalists have Club World Cup games in Seattle in 6 weeks, and from the sales so far, it will be in an empty stadium. The PSG vs Sounders game looks to be selling ok, but Inter Milan looks like they have sold almost nothing (large sections on both appear to be reserved to for sponsors)
This is not a dude fans should be so down on.
April 10, 2025 at 9:12 PM
This is not a dude fans should be so down on.
So the world is really dependent on the German anti-fascist coalition holding. Cool cool cool. That’s never gone wrong before.
April 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
So the world is really dependent on the German anti-fascist coalition holding. Cool cool cool. That’s never gone wrong before.